Gobel v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Gadsden City Court. Heard before Hon. James A. Bilbro. Lin Gobel, alias Lin Goble, etc., was convicted of vagrancy, and he.appeals. The facts sufficiently appear.
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Appeal from Gadsden City Court. Heard before Hon. James A. Bilbro. Lin Gobel, alias Lin Goble, etc., was convicted of vagrancy, and he.appeals. The facts sufficiently appear. Charge B refused to defendant is as follows: (B) If you find from the evidence in this case that after defendant married his wife, and while they were living together, that the wife of the defendant committed an act of adultery, and that the defendant abandoned her after said act of adultery and because of such conduct on her part, then you cannot find the defendant guilty. (C) If the jury find from the evidence in this…
1Opinion of the CourtBbown, J.
The defendant was convicted of vagrancy. ' The ' specific charge against him was abandonment of his family without just cause, leaving them without sufficient means of subsistence or in danger of becoming a public burden.
The evidence shows that the defendant and the witness Myrtle Goble were married on the 26th of January, 1914, about 8 o’clock; that the defendant stayed with his wife until about 12 o’clock of that night, and left her without means of support; that he was a healthy, able-bodied man. The evidence further tends to show that at the time of the marriage Myrtle was pregnant with…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Finney v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1914
- Bostick v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1911
3Cited by4 opinions
- Mayo v. MayoSupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
- Ex parte GobelSupreme Court of Alabama · 1916
- McKinnon v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917
- State v. DavisWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1936